Chumpon M. Surintraboon was born in Thailand in 1935 and attended Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, graduating in 1960 with a BArch, with distinction. Three years later, in September 1963, he enrolled on the post-graduate course at the Architectural Association’s (AA) Department of Tropical Studies, London. Soon after completing the AA course Surintraboon moved to the US where he gained a MArch. in Architecture and Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. His outstanding thesis, entitled ‘An Industrialised Housing System’ is now preserved in the MIT Archives. Jointly written with 2 other classmates and supervised by the Eduardo Catalano, the thesis proposed a model for the rational and efficient production of pre-fabricated housing units. Details of Surintraboon’s subsequent life and career are not yet known to us.

Sources

• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 16th March, 1964. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership Register, 1969, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Journal, June 1964, Vol. 80, No. 883, pp29-36
• Horayangkura, V., C Intha, C., Surintraboon, C. ‘An Industrialised Housing System’ MArch thesis, MIT, 1970.